Dang, that makes me sound old...anyways, when I was in school I had an English teacher that always told us "If you love your kids, you'll beat them regularly."
Maybe the original poster (because he's apparently not doing his homework...or maybe even skipping classes) should be beaten a bit more. Nothing motiviates like a little of the old ultra-violence.
"Why is the "one computer at a time" line okay? If I bought the software why should I not install it on all my computers?"
Because that's how the system works now, and that's how it sould work in the future: One copy per machine or one copy in use at a time on multiple machines. Don't let the "freedom" Linux grants you to cloud your thinking in an economic matter such as this. If it was your way (buy it once, install it anyplace you want) the cost of software would go dramatically up since software makers need to make money and with the lower sales comes the need to increase per unit pricing to off set that... the alternative is a whole lot of out of business companies. Then you get no software of "retail value" at all...and no support. In short: your plan would fux0r the "electronic economy."
All we need to do is get Congress to declare the current method of software "licensing" to be illegal; then force the idea that "once you buy software you BUY it--you can use it perpetually--but only one computer at a time, and if you sell it ALL your rights in the matter go to whomever you sold the software.
End of problem. Unfortuantely, it's harder to accomplish than anyone can imagine. Which is why you all need to elect me as Emperor for life. And, just like my.sig says...
Here's a question: is any intelligence truly artificial?
I mean, if a robot, toaster, or what ever has sentience, intelligence, and all the thinkgs that we think make us special, even if it was manufactured, is that intelligence truly "artificial" or is it "real"? If not, then at what point does it become real? When did it stop being just semi-programmed responses and boolean algorythms and become something more? When do we say that you can dismantle that car, but you can't disassemble that robot (without its expressed permission)?
"Note: Requirements 2 and 3 eliminate WindowsXP as an upgrade route. I would need to buy a new computer, probably new peripherals, and replace some eXPensive software to get the dubious benefits of product-activation codes and embedded functions I don't want and can't delete."
Clearly, the author is on crack, as I'm currently running Windows XP on a machine past it's prime, and am having no problems whatsoever; additionally, I can run Office 2000 without incident. If she's still using Office 97, then she really needs to come into the modern world just a wee bit.
Her statement on using only the available documentation (no man pages, no newsgroups, no other websites, etc.) is right on--you shouldn't have to rely on third-party information that is most likely out of date or configured completely incorrectly for your needs.
One common problem she was having was that she couldn't burn a CD with non-Root privelage. That "problem"--actually a security feature--exists on Windows XP as well. It's that way for a reason, yo.
Mandrake 8.1 (Linux for Windows):"Silly me! I expected that if the box says "Linux for Windows" and the CD says "Linux for Windows," they would contain an installation specifically and solely of Linux for Windows. I expected it would install from the CD-ROM like other Windows programs. I was quite mistaken."
You mean you didn't expect false information? What are you stupid? Damn near every manual you read has some wrong information or FUD in it of some type or other--it doesn't matter what manual it is, there are lies there. It's how it is.
Lycoris:"I inserted the CD with Windows active and discovered that it requires an installation of MSIE 4.0 or higher for the autorun installation to work. Although MSIE was installed on the system, Lycoris didn't find it and closed out with a fatal error."
That's a failure for sure...wonder why the Lycoris people never found that one--more testing for them I bet.
Oh, and the burn CD as root only thing is mentioned above, so I won't repeat myself.
Mandrake 8.0:"With the new graphics card, Mandrake installed more easily. To my surprise, the CD player worked as expected. I haven't a clue why a different graphics card would affect the CD player's access rights, but it did."
Conflict? Programming stupidity? Lack of proper driver? Dependencies?... FIIK (Fucked if I know).
SuSE 7.1 Professional = SoSO: Many problems she had = German shitware.
Mandrake 8.2 Beta 1 and 2: Apparently the Freanch make shitware as well (goes great with the German one! LOL)
"This brings out another frustrating aspect of Linux distributions: whom should I report the bug to? If you think the "it's the hardware, no, it's the software" tap-dance in the Windows world is annoying, wait until you see the "don't blame us we're only the distributor, you gotta talk to the dev team, no you gotta talk to the hardware maker, no it's the driver writers" boogie."
HA! Hahahahahahahahaha! What have I been preaching for the last 2 years? This! I could rub this in some more, but I wont.
Mandrake 9.0, Red Hat 8.0, & Knoppix: Getting warmer, but still shitty... Love those useless errors, don't we? Man Page? Lucky you didn't lose your sanity!
And finally..."As a whole, Linux is much closer to being an acceptable operating system than it was at the start, but it's still not perfect. Printing is still not a sure thing, sound-card support is degenerating instead of improving, and I have yet to successfully burn a CD. At the moment, I have Mandrake 9 installed but don't use it."
Yup, that's what I expected would happen. I must say she took hold of this and continued way beyond where most would have stopped. Medal of Valor type continuing above and beyond. Pity you never "won" this fight.
I would buy one of these as soon as I could provided they weren't ungodly expensive. This is a great idea, whose time has come, but the MPAA/RIAA/DMCA and god knows what else will surely get in the way. Damn those lawmakers anyways!
Sand. Yes, sand. Cast it to the wind, let the enemy (with their cool new laswer thingy) try to shoot through that. Oh, wait, it failed? Gee, didn't see that one coming.
Bad pun at the end of the original post not withstanding, this is pretty cool stuff. Wonder why nobody thought of using comression in this manner before? This has all sorts of potential uses.
I've fired (and handled) both round types (comparing a 5.56 and 7.62 next to one another is easy, but at a glance at a distance they're roughly identical), and at the distance as shown in The Matrix a 5.56 and 7.62 can't be properly determined, and on my DVD player with frame-by-frame you still can't tell what they are. That is unless you know certain unknowables, such as distance, Keanu's height, width of his ankle, etc. Making a guess on my experience, those are 7.62; and since the movie production company paid for the use of an actual M134, and those fire 7.62, there would be greater cost to fake a 5.56 round.
In other words, you're off base. And as to your question of if I'm trolling? No, but I can if you like.;)
It didn't make any sense to produce a product (for free) that would directly compete (in some circumstances) with a product that they produce for sale (Solaris/SunOS).
"A few minutes later Neo goes to work on the office where Morpheus is being held (putting Morpheus at great risk of being a casualty of friendly fire (which, BTW, isn't)) with a mini-gun. From the front view it appears to be 30 cal+. Again, a few shots later we see a rain of brass. (This time from below. Beautiful.) And again, looks like 5.56 to me."
Actually, those are 7.62 rounds fired from the minigun.
That is true, and the resoning is simple: the people drafting the legislation don't understand it. The cure is equally simple: technology that isn't understood should not be legislated until it is understood.
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"...a borking book..."
and it'll fix all my goddamn typos! D'OH! That should be "boring."
You'll be able to either speak it (voice recognition) or type it in and it'll take form similar to:It'll be cool and easy. The computer will extrapolate the rest (clipping of other objects); but this might only be good for graphics....
This is great! Perhaps just for cool stuff like this we need "+6" ratings.
"Just say no to movie snobbery."
:)
Thank you! I have felt that same way for a long time. Glad to see that there are others out there that feel the same!
"The fact it's too big and bug ridden is."
Is what? What??? "is a slap in the face?" or "is cool." maybe "is fux0red?" Finish the sentence damn you!
Dang, that makes me sound old...anyways, when I was in school I had an English teacher that always told us "If you love your kids, you'll beat them regularly."
Maybe the original poster (because he's apparently not doing his homework...or maybe even skipping classes) should be beaten a bit more. Nothing motiviates like a little of the old ultra-violence.
"Why is the "one computer at a time" line okay? If I bought the software why should I not install it on all my computers?"
... the alternative is a whole lot of out of business companies. Then you get no software of "retail value" at all...and no support. In short: your plan would fux0r the "electronic economy."
Because that's how the system works now, and that's how it sould work in the future: One copy per machine or one copy in use at a time on multiple machines. Don't let the "freedom" Linux grants you to cloud your thinking in an economic matter such as this. If it was your way (buy it once, install it anyplace you want) the cost of software would go dramatically up since software makers need to make money and with the lower sales comes the need to increase per unit pricing to off set that
All we need to do is get Congress to declare the current method of software "licensing" to be illegal; then force the idea that "once you buy software you BUY it--you can use it perpetually--but only one computer at a time, and if you sell it ALL your rights in the matter go to whomever you sold the software.
.sig says...
End of problem. Unfortuantely, it's harder to accomplish than anyone can imagine. Which is why you all need to elect me as Emperor for life. And, just like my
because the DMCA is already abusive...it's just being applied normally. Best thing is to repeal that abomination.
then you're ok, becuase Xtra's TOS is clear on that matter.
How in the HELL is this "Informative"? All the guy asked was for someone to post the ISO's on Kazaa... Put down the crack pipe!
Could be worse...they could hack your Tivo and recored nothing but Dr. Phil episodes of Oprah...
Here's a question: is any intelligence truly artificial?
I mean, if a robot, toaster, or what ever has sentience, intelligence, and all the thinkgs that we think make us special, even if it was manufactured, is that intelligence truly "artificial" or is it "real"? If not, then at what point does it become real? When did it stop being just semi-programmed responses and boolean algorythms and become something more? When do we say that you can dismantle that car, but you can't disassemble that robot (without its expressed permission)?
From the Story:
"Note: Requirements 2 and 3 eliminate WindowsXP as an upgrade route. I would need to buy a new computer, probably new peripherals, and replace some eXPensive software to get the dubious benefits of product-activation codes and embedded functions I don't want and can't delete."
Clearly, the author is on crack, as I'm currently running Windows XP on a machine past it's prime, and am having no problems whatsoever; additionally, I can run Office 2000 without incident. If she's still using Office 97, then she really needs to come into the modern world just a wee bit.
Her statement on using only the available documentation (no man pages, no newsgroups, no other websites, etc.) is right on--you shouldn't have to rely on third-party information that is most likely out of date or configured completely incorrectly for your needs.
One common problem she was having was that she couldn't burn a CD with non-Root privelage. That "problem"--actually a security feature--exists on Windows XP as well. It's that way for a reason, yo.
Mandrake 8.1 (Linux for Windows): "Silly me! I expected that if the box says "Linux for Windows" and the CD says "Linux for Windows," they would contain an installation specifically and solely of Linux for Windows. I expected it would install from the CD-ROM like other Windows programs. I was quite mistaken."
You mean you didn't expect false information? What are you stupid? Damn near every manual you read has some wrong information or FUD in it of some type or other--it doesn't matter what manual it is, there are lies there. It's how it is.
Lycoris: "I inserted the CD with Windows active and discovered that it requires an installation of MSIE 4.0 or higher for the autorun installation to work. Although MSIE was installed on the system, Lycoris didn't find it and closed out with a fatal error."
That's a failure for sure...wonder why the Lycoris people never found that one--more testing for them I bet.
Oh, and the burn CD as root only thing is mentioned above, so I won't repeat myself.
Mandrake 8.0: "With the new graphics card, Mandrake installed more easily. To my surprise, the CD player worked as expected. I haven't a clue why a different graphics card would affect the CD player's access rights, but it did."
Conflict? Programming stupidity? Lack of proper driver? Dependencies?... FIIK (Fucked if I know).
SuSE 7.1 Professional = SoSO: Many problems she had = German shitware.
Mandrake 8.2 Beta 1 and 2: Apparently the Freanch make shitware as well (goes great with the German one! LOL)
"This brings out another frustrating aspect of Linux distributions: whom should I report the bug to? If you think the "it's the hardware, no, it's the software" tap-dance in the Windows world is annoying, wait until you see the "don't blame us we're only the distributor, you gotta talk to the dev team, no you gotta talk to the hardware maker, no it's the driver writers" boogie."
HA! Hahahahahahahahaha! What have I been preaching for the last 2 years? This! I could rub this in some more, but I wont.
Mandrake 9.0, Red Hat 8.0, & Knoppix: Getting warmer, but still shitty... Love those useless errors, don't we? Man Page? Lucky you didn't lose your sanity!
And finally..."As a whole, Linux is much closer to being an acceptable operating system than it was at the start, but it's still not perfect. Printing is still not a sure thing, sound-card support is degenerating instead of improving, and I have yet to successfully burn a CD. At the moment, I have Mandrake 9 installed but don't use it."
Yup, that's what I expected would happen. I must say she took hold of this and continued way beyond where most would have stopped. Medal of Valor type continuing above and beyond. Pity you never "won" this fight.
I would buy one of these as soon as I could provided they weren't ungodly expensive. This is a great idea, whose time has come, but the MPAA/RIAA/DMCA and god knows what else will surely get in the way. Damn those lawmakers anyways!
Sand. Yes, sand. Cast it to the wind, let the enemy (with their cool new laswer thingy) try to shoot through that. Oh, wait, it failed? Gee, didn't see that one coming.
Keep with the OICW. Better idea, better weapon.
Fine by me, I don't like Gnome anyways...
Dude, you got a fembot!
Bad pun at the end of the original post not withstanding, this is pretty cool stuff. Wonder why nobody thought of using comression in this manner before? This has all sorts of potential uses.
I've fired (and handled) both round types (comparing a 5.56 and 7.62 next to one another is easy, but at a glance at a distance they're roughly identical), and at the distance as shown in The Matrix a 5.56 and 7.62 can't be properly determined, and on my DVD player with frame-by-frame you still can't tell what they are. That is unless you know certain unknowables, such as distance, Keanu's height, width of his ankle, etc. Making a guess on my experience, those are 7.62; and since the movie production company paid for the use of an actual M134, and those fire 7.62, there would be greater cost to fake a 5.56 round.
;)
In other words, you're off base. And as to your question of if I'm trolling? No, but I can if you like.
Nope it is 7.62, that's a GE M134 Minigun, check here for proof.
It didn't make any sense to produce a product (for free) that would directly compete (in some circumstances) with a product that they produce for sale (Solaris/SunOS).
"A few minutes later Neo goes to work on the office where Morpheus is being held (putting Morpheus at great risk of being a casualty of friendly fire (which, BTW, isn't)) with a mini-gun. From the front view it appears to be 30 cal+. Again, a few shots later we see a rain of brass. (This time from below. Beautiful.) And again, looks like 5.56 to me."
Actually, those are 7.62 rounds fired from the minigun.
That is true, and the resoning is simple: the people drafting the legislation don't understand it. The cure is equally simple: technology that isn't understood should not be legislated until it is understood.
"In the Matrix, everything fires NATO 5.56"
.357, .44, or .50AE.
;)
Not the Desert Eagle's that the Agents use. Those are only
Ok, so I'm being a dick, sue me...